Arlene McKenzie

Community, Tourism, Artisan – Activist.
Ubele Initiative – London UK – Project Manager for Heritage Arts Project – 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance – (2021-2022).
Co-founder of Montego Bay Creative Arts Network – MCAN (2020-present)
Co-founder of Rastafari Indigenous Village, Educational Interpretative Centre and Irits Cultural Creative Festival (2012 – 2022)
Past Director of Product Quality 1994-2003 and later Craft Development Authority (2015-2017) at the Tourism Product Development Company.
Consultant (working as part of team with Small Planet Company) to the Nature Conservancy - on Craft training and development on the south coast – Belmont (2017-2018).
Consultant to the Travel foundation on marketing of the Harbour Street Craft Market (2018).
Past member of advisory group of the Monex Woodwork Centre (2016-2018).